Thursday, December 20, 2012

Drone Strikes: Where Are Obama's Tears For Those Child Victims?

"For more than five years, Brandon Bryant worked in an oblong,
windowless container about the size of a trailer, where the
air-conditioning was kept at 17 degrees Celsius (63 degrees Fahrenheit)
and, for security reasons, the door couldn't be opened. Bryant and his
coworkers sat in front of 14 computer monitors and four keyboards. When
Bryant pressed a button in New Mexico, someone died on the other side of
the world.

The container is filled with the humming of
computers. It's the brain of a drone, known as a cockpit in Air Force
parlance. But the pilots in the container aren't flying through the air.
They're just sitting at the controls."

Innocent women and
children were killed by drone strikes in the al-Majala region of Yemen.
The United States is responsible for a very high number of innocent
civilian deaths from drone strikes; a soldier wracked with guilt told
his story of dehumanizing rationalization after killing a child. The
senseless deaths of innocent children in Newtown, Connecticut devastated
the nation, causing President Obama to cry openly for them. Why are
children in places like Yemen or Pakistan not mourned? Cenk Uygur
discusses the disparity.

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